[Antiracism] Please ask your organization to sponsor this conference on torture and detention without trial

[Marty Nathan]

PIONEER VALLEY COALITION AGAINST 

SECRECY AND TORTURE

P.O. Box 1594

Northampton, MA 01061

 

March 8, 2007

 

Dear Friends,

 

We are writing you to ask your organization to join the Pioneer Valley Coalition Against Secrecy and Torture and the Government Department of Smith College in sponsoring a town/gown educational forum about Torture and Detention without Trial to be held at Smith College, Wednesday, April 25 at 7 pm at Smith College. Activist Frida Berrigan and attorney Buz Eisenberg will be speaking about their first-hand knowledge of the Guantanamo Bay Prison, torture, rendition, black sites and what can be done about them.

 

We find our nation in a Constitutional and moral crisis, with our leaders creating and carrying out programs of kidnap, "disappearance" and torture in prisons around the world. The Military Commissions Act has effectively eliminated the right of legal appeal of imprisonment and what goes on behind the prison walls for untold numbers of men, women and children held in our country's War on Terror mocks our claims of civility and democracy. 

 

We firmly believe that the people must know in order to act when the leaders are violating human rights. And, most importantly, our young people must help us lead.

 

That is why we want to work with the students of Smith to touch the outrage that all people of conscience must feel when such policies are exposed. 

 

Please help us get out the word and bring folks to this important meeting. Please become a co-sponsor of the event by writing back to us at the above address.

 

Thank you.

 

PVCAST:



Beth Adams

Norma Akamatsu

Joel Dansky

Mohamed Elgadi

Nancy Foster

Darien Gardner

Marjorie Hess

Mary Howorth

Arky Markham

Bruce Miller

Marty Nathan

Irvine Sobelman

Paki Wieland

 



 

Sponsoring Organization's Name____________________­­­­________________

 

Contact Person___________________________________ Email Address________________
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